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Politics Trove facilitates a rounded and complete study of politics. Its powerful search facility means you can delve deeper into your title, navigate more easily, and connect with additional resources in your own institution’s library collection. For the first time Politics Trove enables you to search and interrogate the wealth of Oxford’s textbook politics list.

What titles are available?

Politics Trove contains the content of 33 politics and IR textbooks across core and optional modules.

Why Politics Trove?

Search

Search across the full text of all the titles on Politics Trove

Search results bring up relevant chapters as well as whole textbooks

Browse by subject through drop-down menu and left-hand panel

Politics Trove has basic and advanced search

Search results can be downloaded (as PDF and XLS) to browse later

Abstracts appear at book and chapter level (for non-authenticated users) so you can sort and filter your search results easily

Use the powerful Oxford Index to return search results across OUP’s journal and scholarly digital content (subject to institutional subscription).

Navigate

Cross-references within the chapters are hyperlinked for fast and easy navigation

There are links within the content to additional learning resources on a book’s Online Resource Centre and to relevant external content for a joined up learning experience

Save links to content, and searches to your Personal Profile for easy navigation

Interact

Bibliographic references and further reading suggestions are hyperlinked to your institution’s library collection

Create your Personal Profile to save links and searches, and to make your own annotations to parts of the text, and add your own notes and comments and bookmark key parts for future reference and revision

Accurately cite parts of the content in your essays and coursework using the citation export tool (displayed as a pencil icon on the tool bar)

Images and diagrams can be viewed in a pop-up window, and downloaded to PowerPoint for use in your work

Snippets of content can be shared through email or social network sites

Permanent digital online identifiers (DOIs) are provided for every chapter and act as permanent URLs, they can be saved as references, used them on reading lists, and create direct links to prescribed reading from a VLE

Obtaining access to Politics Trove

Redeeming an access codeIf you are a student who has been given an access token by your university please visit the access page to find out how to activate your account.

Purchasing a subject collectionIndividual students can buy 6 or 12 months access to subject collections. Visit the Purchasing a Collection page for details on how to do this.

Academics wanting trial access to content Academics who would like an inspection copy, or time limited trial access, to content within Politics Trove should contact their campus representative for more information and a demonstration.